Check-severing device.



No. 7|o,360. Patented sept. so, |902.

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(Applimion md sept. 2o, 1901.)

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,'CHECK SEVERING BEVICE.

[Application led Sept. 20, 1901.)

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STATES FOSTER J. HULL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER COMPANY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEW JERSEY.

CHECK-SEVERING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,360, dated September 30, 1902.

Application filed September 20, 1901. Serial No. 76,007. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: provided with spring plate or shield 3 to hold Be it known that I, FOSTER J. HULL, a citidown the slip placed on said carrier and with zen of the United States, residing at'Brooklyn, a raised rim or gage-anges 4, which,-in conin the county of Kings and State of New York, nection with the shoulder 3' of the spring- 5 have invented certain new and useful Implate 3, serve to properly position the record- 55 proveniente in Check- Severing Devices, of slip on the carrier. Slots 5 in the carrier may which the following is a specification. serve for the passage of suitable printing de- This invention relates to check-severing devices. (Not shown.) The carrier is also provices for mechanical cashiers or recorders and vided with aslot 6,eXtending through both the lo similar machines; and its object is to provide body of the carrier and the overlying spring- 6o means whereby the act of insertion or withplate 3, so as to enable free access to the drawal of a check or slip in or from the ma- `record-slip from top and bottom by the cutchine will result in severing the slip. ting devices. Said cutting devices comprise This invention is particularly intended for two rotary knives or cutting-disks 8 9. The

I5 use in connection with mechanical cashiers lower disk Sis fast on a shaft 7, journaled in a 65 or cash-recorders wherein a check-slip is used fixed support below the carrier 2 and having' having a main body portion and a coupon or iiXed to it a pinion 8', engaged by a rack l0 on voucher portion, both of which are printed the under side of the carrier, so thatif the caron by the action of the machine and which rier or support 2 is pushed in or pulled out it 2o are required to be severed for any reasonwill rotate this lower cutting-disk. The upper 7o for example, in order to enable the coupon to cutting-disk is shown in Figs. l to 3 as mountbe retained by the cashier or machine or by ed to rotate freely on a bracket 13, pivoted to the operator. frame-plate l" above the carrier 2 and drawn Theinvention comprises,in connection with by a spring 11 in such manner as to hold the 2 5 a mechanical cashier or cash-recorder, means upper cutting-disk 9 with its periphery bear- 7 5 for supporting a check-slip and inserting it ing yieldingly against the periphery of the in and withdrawing it from the machine and lower cutting-disk 8. The cutting-disks 8 9 severing means operated bysuch operating overlapslightly, so that the peripheral pormeans to sever the slip in the manner stated. tions of their adjacent sides bear against one 3o In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis anotherand tend togiveashearing ordrawing 8o aplan view of check-severing mechanism emcut. I prefer to mount the upper cuttingbodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front eledisk 9 at aslight angle both horizontally and vation thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. vertically to the lower cutting-disk, as the Fig. l shows another form of my invention cutting action is thereby rendered more ef- 35 in front elevation. fective. In this form (shown in Figs. 1 to 3) 85 The mechanical cashier or recorder to which the upper disk is caused to rotate by friction this invention is applied may be of any usual with the lower disk. When the record-slip or special construction, and the various opis placed on the carrier 2 and the latter is erative parts of the same, including the repressed in, it carries the slip between the ro- 40 cording bars or devices, platen mechanism, tary knives or cutters 8 9, and thereby causes 9o 85e., are not herein shown, as they form no the slip to be severed in an obvious manner. part of my present invention. l represents One of the severedrportions may then be rea portion of the base of such a machine, and tained in the machine by any suitable means, l' 1" two frame-plates projecting from said or, if desired, it can remain on the carrier and 45 base, which constitute the support for the be retained by the operator when the carrier 95 check carrying and severing devices now to is pulled out. p be described. In the modification shown in Fig. et the con- The check or record-slip carrier consists of struction of the cutters is the same as above a sliding table or support 2, movable in suitdescribed, except that means are provided 5o able guides in the aforesaid frame-plates and for positively driving the upper cutter, such roc means being here shown as consisting of engaging gears 12 12', one of which is connected to the lower c11tter-disk,while the otheris connected by a fiexible shaft 7 with the upper cutting-disk 9, whereby said upper cuttingdisk is caused'to rotate positively in obvious manner.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. The combination with a movable slipcarrier, of a slip-severing device connected to and operated by the movement of said carrier.

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a movable carrier for supporting a removable slip and inserting it within the machine, of a severing device operated by the movement of the carrier to sever the slip.

3. In a machine ofthe character described, the combination of a sliding support movable and guided in said machine and adapted to receive a slip and insertsame in the machine, of a severing device located in fixed relation rto the machine and having operating connections with the carrier whereby movement of the carrier operates the severing device to sever the slip.

4. The combination with a slip-carrier and a severing device consisting of engaging rotary knives, one of which is operatively connected with said carrier.

5. The combination with a slip-carrier and a severing device consisting ot' engaging rotary knives, both ofwhich are operatively connected with said carrier.

6. The severing device comprising two rotary knives engaging by the peripheral portions of their sides, and means for yieldingly drawing one of said knives into engagement with the other.

7. The combination with the movable slipcarrier of the two rotary slip-severing knives, a gear connected to one of said knives, and a rack connected to the slip-carrier and operating said gear to turn the knives.

' FOSTER J. HULL.

Witnesses:

A. P. KNIGHT, HARRY E. KNIGHT. 

